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P. DE F. AND F. E. WARNER.

TOGGLE BUTTON.

APPLICATION man JAN. 2a. 1920.

1,353,439. PatentedSept. 21,1920.

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Application filed January 23, 1920; Serial No. 353,473;

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, PERCY DE F. WAR- NER and FRANK E. WARNER, citizens of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toggle-Buttons, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved construction of that form of button fastener commonly known in the trade as a toggle, and which is secured to the eye of a button in such a way thatit may be threaded through a buttonhole or eyelet and then arranged at right angles tothe eye so as to attach the button in a removable way to a garment, the toggle in the present invention being made a permanent part of the button and sold with it; hence the title toggle button, herein used.

The "invention consists of a toggle or fastener, made, preferably, of wire bent upon itself to form an eye at one end to engage the eye of a button so as to be suspended therefrom lengthwise, a loop in one or both limbs to engage the button-eye when turned at right angles thereto, and its opposite ends brought closely together and permanently locked by expanding one of them upon the other to thereby form also a threading end by which the toggleor fastener may be readily and conveniently threaded through a buttonhole or eyelet in a garment to which the button is to be removably attached when a the garment is to be washed or cleaned, as I will proceed now to explain and claim.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is an elevation showing the parts in position to be attached to a garment. Fig. 2 is a similarview showing the parts as arranged when attached to a. garment. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the fastener detached. Fig. 4 is an enlarged cross-section on line 4-4, of Fig. 1. Fig. 5: is an elevation of a modification showing two loops instead of one as in the other view.

The button 1 and its eye or shank 2 may be and is here shown as of conventional construction.

The fastener or toggle 3 is here shown as made of a piece of wire, bent upon itself to form the button-eye engaging eye 4, and the limbs 5 and 6, one of which may have the button-eye engaging loop 7 as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, or both of which may have such loops, as shown at 7 and 8, Fig. 5. The limb 5 is shorter than limb 6 and the two limbs are brought into contact at their ends, and the outer portion 9 of the limb 6 is expanded or spread out flat and bent over the end of limb 5 and engages it bothlongitudinally and laterally so as not only to lock the limbs together in the direction of their length to prevent them from separating but also laterally as more'fully shown in Fig. 4:, so as to prevent displacement incident to rough usage, and further, to present a relatively reduced threading end to facilitate the passage of the fastener through the buttonhole or eyelet in the garment.

Obviously the fastener or toggle is first applied to the eye of the button and then its threading end closed as described. When the button is to be applied to a garment, the fastener or toggle is arranged as shown in Fig. 1, and after the button-eye or shank has been drawn through the buttonhole or eyelet, the fastener or toggle is turned over as in Fig. 2, so that the loop 7 will be engaged with the button-eye to retain the button on the garment. Of course, there is enough spring in the limbs of the toggle to permit the toggle to be adjusted from the position shown in Fig. 1 to the position shown in Fig. 2 and either position maintained as desired. As shown in Fig. 5 either loop 7 or loop 8 may be engaged with the button-eye indiscriminately.

Variations in details of construction are permissible within the principle of the invention as herein explained and claimed.

What we claim is 1. A button, having a permanently applied toggle composed of a piece of metal bent upon itself to form a button-eye engaging loop and its limbs at the farther end brought together, the outer portion of one limb being expanded and engaging the other limb both longitudinally and laterally to lock the ends of the limbs against longitudinal and lateral displacement.

2. A toggle button, having loops adapted to engage the eye of a button in the direction of the axis of the button and also transversely thereto, the toggle element having both longitudinally and laterally to thereby one limb shorter than the other and emlock the limbs in fixed position.

braced longitndinally and laterally by the In testimony whereof we have her'ennto end of'said'other limb so as to prevent relaset our hands this 19th day of January A.

5 tive displacement of the limbs. D. 1920. 3. A toggle, for a toggle button, provided 7 PERCY DE F. WARNER. with a plurality of button-eye engaging e'le} V FRANK E. WARNER. ments, and having one short limb and one Witnesses: long'limb, the long limb having its'encl por- L. BARTON CHAPMAN,

10 tion flattened and closed over the short limb D. H. MUNGER. 

